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The Secretary of War The President of the United States has upon all occasions, to the utmost of his power endeavored to do justice to the Cherokees and all the Indian Nations. It is his desire to live with the Indians upon terms of peace and friendship. That the business upon which they came was shaped in the manner expressed in the articles and it was conceived to be perfectly agreeable to them. That the articles drawn up here make the Treaty of Holston neither stronger nor weaker. If however you have any objection to signing now speak; 'tis not intended otherwise than for you freely to act as you may think best."

Double Head. "We are here met together in peace. We did not mean to spoil our talks. We mean to carry every thing fairly, and to have only peace. This is the last day appointed to have every thing settled. You told us you could not alter the Treaty of Hopewell: this we consider to be the true boundary. Holston is not the same. - I have thought of it while I was at my lodgings - I say it is a very crooked line. You have mentioned the time when horses which are stolen by the red people are to be returned. I wish you to fix on sometime when the whites shall not cross the line within the United States. We must think of the old Cherokees who made this Treaty. Their talks we keep, and as they made the Treaty, so shall we keep it. "I see the President our father wishes we may all sit down in peace with our elder brothers. We wish to live in peace: we want no war - we are a middle people - we have others every way around us - our disposition is to be at peace with every one. The day is come, that we have taken one another fast by the hands. This we consider as being at peace.